What do you remember

@ramapo17 (30441)
Melbourne, Florida
August 24, 2016 1:04pm CST
I remember as a young child visiting my grand parents. They lived in a 3 story apartment building. I use to help go to the basement with a bucket and fill it up with coal. Of course someone went with me as I couldn't carry it up three flights. How things have changed. What do you remember from your childhood?
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@JudyEv (325945)
• Rockingham, Australia
25 Aug 16
I lived on a farm and remember all the animals we had - milking cows, mustering, feeding pigs, etc. And always being worried about would our dams hold out over summer.
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@ramapo17 (30441)
• Melbourne, Florida
25 Aug 16
Do you still have lots of animals to take care of?
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@ramapo17 (30441)
• Melbourne, Florida
26 Aug 16
@JudyEv Doesn't he get lonely by himself?
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@JudyEv (325945)
• Rockingham, Australia
26 Aug 16
@ramapo17 We only have one pet sheep and we chose to live where there was plenty of water so it's all good now. :)
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• Hangzhou, China
10 Sep 16
There is so much for us to recall and remember what happened in our childhood. I mentioned one of the things that happened in my childhood, but here I would like to talk about another thing that I remember for the time being. I used to live in an old house with a few families in the same house, but I have to say that it is a big house with a lot of rooms. This house was a two-storey one. Every time when I had to go upstairs or downstairs, I was afraid of the darkness of the flight of stairs. I almost ran and jumped a few stairs all the way up or down for my neighbours used to tell ghost stories and as a child I was scared after listening to the stories and it was natural for a child like me to be afraid of those invisible stuff. Later when I grew up, I mean, after I got married a few years later, it was pulled down for the establishment of new houses. Now this house is gone for good, but still I miss it a lot because it was the house where I was brought up together with my childhood playmates.
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@ramapo17 (30441)
• Melbourne, Florida
13 Sep 16
@williamjisir I use to be afraid to go down to the basement. My sister was afraid of the same thing even as she got older.
@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
24 Aug 16
Yes things change, one of the few permanent things in this world is change. Just wondering what the coal is for, is it for heating or cooking?
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@ramapo17 (30441)
• Melbourne, Florida
24 Aug 16
They used it to heat the apartment. I don't know what they cooked with. That was about 70 years ago.
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@sishy7 (27169)
• Australia
9 Sep 16
Going to my grandma's was something I really looked forward to as a kid...
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@ramapo17 (30441)
• Melbourne, Florida
9 Sep 16
Memories are so great of the past. I always hope my grandchildren will say the same thing when they get older about being with us.
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@marlina (154166)
• Canada
24 Aug 16
I remember piling wood in the basement for the winter and going almost every day to pick some up so my Mom could cook on the wood stove.
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@ramapo17 (30441)
• Melbourne, Florida
24 Aug 16
@marlina Isn't it so amazing that the kids of today have never experienced any of this and probably think we lived in the stone age.
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• United States
24 Aug 16
lightnin' bugs 'n grannies blackberry cobbler, lol.
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@ramapo17 (30441)
• Melbourne, Florida
24 Aug 16
Hahaha
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